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Thankyou Graham, I will certainly do that. I did find some stunning pieces by Michael Komark, of which prompted me to pursue this idea. Soem slight similarities I'll admit 'wink'.
Everyone should check his work out, some great pieces of Julius Caesar himself.
http://www.komarckart.com/ccg_ana03.html
there are others there and artwork depicting many of our aged warriors of centuries goen past.
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Hello Stefano
The image is as you say 'stunning' but from a historical point of view it looks like the Ermine Street Guard have travelled back in time!
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well...ummmm....ok if you say so....as I said,,,historically correct..maybe not.
I'm sure it will cause mayhem with lorica and helmets purists challenging what Caesar was wearing, Think that was another thread. I await the onslaught. Shields at the ready!
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Nice stuff! Arthurian, ancient Egyptian, more!
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Very nice artwork. I particularly like the one of Zeus!
However, I think the artist has spent rather too much time looking at pictures of Russell Crow in that most excrable of films. The sword through the map is also right rightly placed in the 'anachronisms' folder. The sword and scabbard and invention which is widely sold in museum shops who should know better and the map is of the modern sort which would not have been recognisable to the Romans.
Unfortunately I don't have a picture of myself wearing the right type of kit for an image of Caesar at the Rubicon, which should probably be something in the order of mail or scale armour, Montifortino or captured Gallic helmet, large scutum and pilum with a VERY bulbous expansion for the very wide tangs of the period.
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